Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16
Women Floeged BY the Boers.


The editor of the Eastern Province
Herald writes from Port Elizabeth call
ing attention to Boer brutality in the
Transvaal. The accuracy of the ac-
count is vouehed for:
My name is Sara. am about "a
years of age. On Monday last l was
discharged from the Pretoria Jail, after
being imprisoned for two months.
was sent to prison because l was said to
have been impudent to white woman.
/ was not impudent, but, Mrs. D.
said that l had enticed the girl Rachel
to run away. The fieldcornet came
with a black constable and said:
"Catch the impudent woman and
take her to prison." Maraba said that
| should be taken to the landdrost.
First was taken to the landdrost.
The landdrost said that / must pay
fine of f3 or go to the tronk for two
months and receive twenty-five lashes.
Mrs. ID. said that l had come to entice
the girl away, and that Charlotte was
the impudent one. Charlotte was fined
fl 1Os., which was paid. Rachel was
fined FL 10s., which was paid by S.
Coetzee, and she had to work it out
was fined G3, but as could not pay !
was sent to tronk and ordered to get
twenty-five lashes. 1 was locked up
for three weeks, and then the land.
drost came to the tronk and ordered
me to receive the twenty-five lashes
while he stood by. was tied up by my
wrists and legs and was flogged until
l tainted. The blood came out my back
where I was fiogged. 1 had all my
clothes taken off with the exception of
my chemise, which was held around
my loins. 1t was after breakfast that
l was fogged. When the landdrost
came was washing his clothes. When
recovered from my faint found my
self on the blanket. In the night OF
the day that was fiogged they senf
for a doctor He pulled open my
mouth and put some stuff to my nose.
l think he came in the middle of the
night. The next day l was told to go
and finish the washing of the landdrost's
clothes. The landdrosts maid,
Mavisa, who was in the tronk, told
the landdrost that l would not wash
the clothes. 1 did not say so, but ]
could not as my back was too sore.
Mavira had been twice flogged by order
of the landdrost. The first time she
had fifteen lashes, wticn were inflicted
in the mems yard. She was stripped,
her chemise being tied about her as
mine was. She was then flogged on
her shoulders. She was put in the
tronk for two days on that occasion.
When she got out she went to the
landdrost's house, and as she refused
to work in consequence of her back
being sore she was sent back for four
days and to receive Il flogging of
twenty-five lashes. As her back was
too raw to be tlogged again in the
same place was told to roll up her
chemise so that she could be tlogged
lower down. That fogging took place
in the women's yard. Mr.. Van Reenen
was present, and the women were
fogged by "Jack." Van Reenen
would not let me be beaten at first,
because, he said, I was too weak.
About three weeks after l was put in
the tronk the landdrost came up in
order to see that his sentence on me was
carried out, and l was tied up and
fogged in his presence, the landdrOst
standing in front of me. When the
landdrost was told that I would not
finish the washing of his clothes he
ordered me to be put in the stocks,
and was kept in the stocks for two
days and two nights, and kept without
food the whole time. | know of six
women being fiogged while l was
in the tronk. All were fiogged
with the cat-o'-nine tails, and all were
beaten by Jack" who does all the
tiogging in the Jail.